{{Short description, none The following is a chronological list of Brazilian classical composers:

Baroque

António José da Silva António José da Silva Coutinho (8 May 170518 October 1739) was a Portuguese dramatist born in colonial Brazil, known as "the Jew" (''O Judeu''). The Brazilian spelling of his first name is Antônio; António José da Silva Coutinho in Hebrew is ...

(1705–1739)

Classical

* José Joaquim Emerico Lobo de Mesquita (1746–1805) * Francisco Gomes da Rocha (1746–1808) * André da Silva Gomes (1752–1844) * Marcos Coelho Neto (1763–1823) * José Maurício Nunes Garcia (1767–1830)

Romantic

* Damião Barbosa de Araújo (1778–1856) *

Elias Álvares Lobo Elias Álvares Lobo (9 August 1834 – 15 December 1901) was a Brazilian composer. Lobo was born in Itu, Brazil. He wrote the first Brazilian opera in the Portuguese language Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance languages, ...

(1834–1901) *

Antônio Carlos Gomes Antônio Carlos Gomes (; July 11, 1836 in Campinas – September 16, 1896 in Belém) was the first New World composer whose work was accepted by Europe. He was the only non-European who was successful as an opera composer in Italy, during the "go ...

(1836–1896) * Brasílio Itiberê da Cunha (1846–1913) *

Chiquinha Gonzaga Francisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga, better known as Chiquinha Gonzaga (; October 17, 1847 – February 28, 1935) was a Brazilian composer, pianist and the first woman conductor in Brazil. Chiquinha Gonzaga was the first pianist of "choro" and ...

(1847–1935) *

Leopoldo Miguez Leopoldo Américo Miguez (9 September 1850 – 6 July 1902) was a Brazilian composer. Miguez was born in Niterói. He was known as a champion of the music of Richard Wagner. He also directed the "Instituto Nacional de Musica." He also wrote the ...

(1850–1902) *

Henrique Oswald Henrique José Pedro Maria Carlos Luis Oswald (April 14, 1852 – June 9, 1931) was a Brazilian composer and pianist. Biography Oswald was born in Rio de Janeiro. His father was a Swiss-German immigrant and his mother from Italy. The family name w ...

(1852–1931) *

Ernesto Nazareth Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth (March 20, 1863 – February 1, 1934) was a Brazilian composer and pianist, especially noted for his creative Maxixe and Choro compositions. Influenced by a diverse set of rhythms like the polka, the habanera, and the ...

(1863-1934) * Alexandre Levy (1864–1892) *

Alberto Nepomuceno Alberto Nepomuceno (July 6, 1864October 16, 1920) was a Brazilian composer and conductor. Career and music Nepomuceno was born in Fortaleza, the capital of the state of Ceará in Northeastern Brazil. His parents were Vitor Augusto Nepomuceno ...

(1864–1920) *

Antônio Francisco Braga Antônio Francisco Braga (April 15, 1868 – March 14, 1945) was a Brazilian music composer. Braga was born in Rio de Janeiro, and studied with Luiz António de Moura and Carlos de Mesquita. In 1886, he founded the ''Sociedade de Concertos Popul ...

(1868–1945)

Modern/Contemporary

* Zequinha de Abreu (1880–1935) * Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959) * Ernani Braga (1888–1948) * Luciano Gallet (1893–1931) *

Oscar Lorenzo Fernández Oscar Lorenzo Fernández (4 November 1897 – 27 August 1948) was a Brazilian composer of Spanish descent. He was born and died in Rio de Janeiro. Life Fernández studied at the Instituto Nacional de Música with Francisco Braga, Frederico Nas ...

(1897–1948) *

Francisco Mignone Francisco Paulo Mignone (September 3, 1897, São Paulo – February 19, 1986, Rio de Janeiro) was one of the most significant figures in Brazilian classical music, and one of the most significant Brazilian composers after Heitor Villa-Lobos. I ...

(1897–1986) *

Radamés Gnattali Radamés Gnattali (27 January 1906 – 3 February 1988) was a Brazilian composer of both classical and popular music, as well as a conductor, orchestrator, and arranger. Biography Radamés Gnattali was born in Porto Alegre (the capital of Rio G ...

(1906–1988) * Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (1907–1993) * Walter Smetak (1913–1984) * César Guerra-Peixe (1914–1993) * Cláudio Santoro (1919–1989) *

Gilberto Mendes Gilberto Mendes (13 October 1922 – 1 January 2016) was a 20th-century Brazilian avant-garde composer, and one of the pioneering fathers of the company New Consonant Music. Biography Gilberto Mendes was born in Santos, Brazil, in 1922. He s ...

(1922–2016) *

Osvaldo Lacerda Osvaldo Costa de Lacerda (March 23, 1927 – July 18, 2011) was a Brazilian composer and professor of music. Lacerda is known for a Brazilian nationalist musical style that combines elements of Brazilian folk and popular music as well as twentieth ...

(1927–1990) *

Rogério Duprat Rogério Duprat (7 February 1932 – 26 October 2006) was a Brazilian composer and musician. Biography Born in Rio de Janeiro, Duprat spent much of his life in São Paulo, where he died. It was there in the early 1960s that he developed an intere ...

(1932–2006) * Jocy de Oliveira (born 1936) * Willy Corrêa de Oliveira (born 1938) *

Marlos Nobre Marlos Nobre (born February 18, 1939 in Recife, Pernambuco) Béhague, Gerard: 'Nobre, Marlos', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 23 June 2007) is a Brazilian composer. He has received commissions from numerous institutions, including the M ...

(born 1939) *

Ricardo Tacuchian Ricardo Tacuchian, born in Rio de Janeiro (born 18 November 1939), is a Brazilian conductor, composer and Doctor in Musical Arts (Composition) at the University of Southern California. Positions he has held include Titular Professor of both UF ...

(born 1939) * Jorge Antunes (born 1942) * José Antônio de Almeida Prado (born 1943) * Marisa Rezende (born 1944) * Vânia Dantas Leite (born 1945) * Ronaldo Miranda (born 1948) *

Ernani Aguiar Ernani Henrique Chaves Aguiar (born 30 August 1950 in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian composer, choral conductor, and musicologist. Life and career A scholarship winner to the Argentine Mozarteum, Aguiar studied under vari ...

(born 1950) *

José Carlos Amaral Vieira José Carlos Amaral Vieira (born 1952 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian composer, pianist, and musicologist. He has performed solo since he was eight years old and studied in Europe from 1965 to 1976. He returned to Brazil in 1977 and has since com ...

(born 1952) * Paulo Costa Lima (born 1954) * Sílvio Ferraz (born 1959) * Kilza Setti (born 1965) *

Marcos Balter Marcos Balter (born April 1, 1974) is a Brazilian contemporary classical music composer and the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University. Life and professional career Balter began his music studies at age five at th ...

(born 1974) * Eduardo Frigatti (born 1985) Brazilian

Composers A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...